Duolingo’s Luis von Ahn Wants to Delete the Blockchain
…They think that the AI is not judging them, even though the AI is judging them. For the last few years as generative AI has been more and more and more in…
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Why Amazon Dropped Its OpenAI Movie, Data Center Workers Fight Back, and Meta Leaks Employee Data
The decision by Amazon-owned MGM Studios to drop the OpenAI movie is just part of AI and film industries becoming increasingly intertwined. On “Uncanny Valley,” we look at where this is…
Meta’s AI Workers Are Revolting, Peter Thiel’s Secret Society, and SBF’s Plea to Trump
This week on Uncanny Valley, our hosts discuss the meltdown that has been recently unfolding at Meta and what it says about the company’s relentless ambitions in the AI race. They…
Trump Pivots on AI Regulation, Worker Ousted by DOGE Runs for Office, and Hantavirus Explained
…This is really hurtful to the American AI industry and progress. So I think you're not going to have those people in the mix. And if you don't have those…
McLaren CEO Zak Brown Still Gets FOMO About Racing Cars
…It's amazing how when you go in and you see a Formula One team, and you see the technology, and the data flying around, and the server racks, and the AI…
The Creators of ‘Hacks’ Really, Really, Really Hate AI
…I can't totally hate on the internet, but in this, sorry to say it, AI slop culture where I just don't know what's real and what's not, it…
Apple’s Next Chapter, SpaceX and Cursor Strike a Deal, and Palantir’s Controversial Manifesto
…Its answer to this, I mean, Steven Levy interviewed Ternus somewhat recently and asked again, "What are you going to do in the AI era?" And his response was very much, "We…
‘Uncanny Valley’: Anthropic’s DOD Lawsuit, War Memes, and AI Coming for VC Jobs
…And it was about this novelist, this award-winning novelist who used AI to write his books. And the play gets into all of this. It gets into AI, reality. It gets…
The Internet’s Favorite Lawyer Says We’re Living Through ‘Multiple Watergates per Week’
…Despite the fact that the news talks about lawyers using AI and AI hallucinating cases, the problem I don't feel is really the AI itself so much as lawyers not checking…
The iPhone That Never Was
…They designed or led Safari, the iPod, iPhone, Apple Watch, Dreamweaver, search at Google, and AI at Apple. “Magicians,” as they were known, also cofounded LinkedIn, Nest, and Android, among other companies…